The Creative Destruction of Medicine
Subtitle: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
By: Eric Topol
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780465025503; 9780465029341
Subjects: Trends; Biomedical Technology; Medical Informatics Applications; Health Communication; Internet; Delivery of Health Care; Diffusion of Innovation
Description: A professor of medicine reveals how technology like wireless internet, individual data, and personal genomics can be used to save lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The digital landscape; title: The orientation of medicine today; title: To what extent are consumers empowered?; title: Physiology : wireless sensors; title: Biology : sequencing the genome; title: Anatomy : from imaging to printing organs; title: Electronic health records and health information systems; title: The convergence of human data capture; title: Doctors with plasticity?; title: The rebooted life science industry; title: The individual.